CVE-2012-5455
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the language search component in Joomla! before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, related to a "typographical error."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.0% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5374)
- Published
- October 22, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5374 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- joomla / joomla!
References
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/541-20121001-core-xss-vulnerability(Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/86134
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50879(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5468-joomla-3-0-1-released.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55858
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79171
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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